Assigned blog 8-Bill Clinton(Background, elections, accomplishments/scandals), im doing his background-Melissa is doing his accomplishments,Netscape goes public-Internet starts-Clinton
Eisenhower's Accomplishments:
-dominated by cold war issues
-Also used CIA to do covert-ops to disrupt communist governments abroad(Iran/Guatamala)
-Ended the Korean Conflict as promised in his 1952 election campaign
-Increased US involvment in Southeast Asia(Vietnam)-US advisors sent
-NASA was created dur to Soviet Sputnik launch
-US spy plane(U-2) was shot down over USSR
-Allowed McCarthy to do his thing but privately did not approve
-Eisenhower Doctrine-if any country in the middle east ask for help to fight communism we will help them
-Believed in laissez-faire
-Believed in a balanced budget
-deported around 1 million illegal immigrants(mostly Mexicans)
-Sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to help in the desegregation of all public schools-1954-Brown Case ***Know this case***
-Helped pass the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 which created the United States' Interstate Highways
John F. Kennedy(D)-35th
-served in WW2
-Was a US Representative and Senator from Massachusetts before becoming Presidents
-Married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier
-First and only Catholic president
-youngest elected president and second youngest president
-assassinated in 1963 in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald
1960 Election
-he was democratic
-went against Richard Nixon-was Eisenhower's vice president
-close election
-first presidential televised debates took place
-Many say this helped JFK win the election
JFk assassination
-Friday November 22, 1963
-was shot 2, once in head & once in neck, in Dallas, Texas
-Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder of JFK
-Oswald was murdered on Sunday night at a police station in Dallas by Jack Ruby.
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